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The Lineup

Released 1958

Distributor Columbia

About The Lineup

Warner Anderson, star of the long-running early fifties TV show The Lineup, repeated his role in 1958’s big screen version but the real stars of director Don Siegel’s brutal thriller were Eli Wallach and Robert Keith as a pair of sociopathic crooks and, of course, Siegel himself who masterminded several lethal set pieces including the hair-raising climax (involving a chase on an unfinished freeway). Seasoned TV writer Stirling Silliphant (Route 66, Naked City) was responsible for the screenplay and cinematographer Hal Mohr (The Wild One, Destry Rides Again) lensed the appropriately gritty black and white San Francisco landscapes.

About Josh Olson

Josh Olson was the only student in his second grade class to see The House That Dripped Blood. Many years later, he wrote and directed the no-budget horror film, Infested, a brutal assault on The Big Chill, with zombies. He went on to write the screenplay for A History of Violence and was nominated for the WGA, BAFTA and Academy Awards for Best Screenplay. He kept losing to Larry McMurtry, but that’s okay. He co-wrote the teleplay for the Masters of Science Fiction episode, The Discarded, with Harlan Ellison, and is currently writing a sophisticated thriller, Tabloid, for Mick Jagger.

Recent Commentaries from Josh Olson

Josh Olson on

The Warriors

1979

Paramount

*+-Walter Hill’s surreal NYC gang flick was way ahead of its time and richly deserves its cult status. The later “director’s cut” DVD re-edit has sparked...

I’d be interested to know whether the author of that Telegraph Viggo Mortensen article ever got back to Josh concerning the various drafts of the History Of Violence script for his side of the story? Bit rude if he didn’t…